Animal trap



A. J. FALL ANIMAL TRAP Filed Feb. 19 1923 I Arthur Jamason 2 2122 Patented @ct. 30,1923. i I I y y fl V UNETE STE-ES. PATENT OFFICE.

ARTHUR JA JtlI IE ISON FALL, OF'IOVVA- FALLS, ANIMAL TRAP.

Application filed February 19, 1923. Serial No. 619,984.

To aZZwhom itmay concern: gravity. Longitudinal wires of said gate 9 Be it known that I, ARTHUR JAMESON are allowed to project and may be sharp- FALL, a citizen of the United States of ened or pointed as at 11, the points resting America, anda resident of Iowa Falls, in contact with said lower part of said 55 Hardin County, Iowa, have invented certain chute.

new and useful Improvements in Animal After some bait, such as cheese or any Traps, of which the following is a specifiodoriferous substance which is attractive to cation. mice or rats has been placed in the chamber My invention relates to improvements in 1, and the closure 2 closed, the trap may be 60 10 animal traps, and the object of my improveplaced in any infested locality. The odor ment is to supply a very simple, inexattracts the animals who jump upon the pensive, and effective trap for catching reticulated top where they can se the cheese small vermin such as mice and rats. or other bait, and are thereby induced to I have accomplished this object by the descend the sloping chute 7 pushing up the 65 means which are hereinafter described and light ga e 9 to enter the chamber 1, the gate claimed, and which ar illustrated i th a falling back to its closed position. The anicompanying drawings, in which Fig. 1 is a mals cannot escape by endeavoring to push vertical cross section of the trap taken on up the gate to move upwardly beneath it th broken line 1-1 of Fig. 3, and Fig. 2 through the chute, as the pointed projec- 7o is another cross section thereof taken on 'tions catch and penetrate them. The same the broken line 2- 2 f aid Fig, 8. Fig. 3 thing occurs when an animal attempts to is a top plan view of the device. baclr out after passing partly under and This device comprises an open top imlifting the gate. perforate metal receptacle which may be of Animals so trapped may be exterminated 7 any shape but is shown as a cylindrical cu easily by filling the imperforate chamber or chamber with i a downwardly rimmed p 1 Wlth W t d t en t e top cover top closure 2 preferably hinged thereto at may be swung upwardly to e ect the re 3 and having at the opposite side an outmains. As thedevice 18 all metal, it may ardly projecting finger-piece 4 for conl1 6 cleansed, disinfected OI (lQOdOIlZBd read- 30 venience in lifting the closure. While the 113 by the uSe of boiling water or otherw se. closur 2 may be made from a i l piece The device may be constructed of any s ze of metal imperforate except for the inl tdesired, and may be of any material which port or opening at 8, I prefer to make the cannot be destroyed by the annnals, and any closure annular as shown at 5, inserting and slight modifications in its parts or arrange- 35 fastening thereunder a top of wire netting ment are covered by my invention.

6, the latter having said opening 8 as shown Havlng described my invention, what I in Fig. 3. claim as new, and desire to secure by Let The numeral 7 denotes an inclined chute ors aten iSr or runway which extends inwardly from the 1. A hollow imperforate chamber having 40 opening 8 of the reticulated top. cover 6 in its top an opening a hollow tubular With Open inner end which end is preferably reticulated chute depending inwardly slopbeveled or slopedat a different angle to the ingly therefrom, and a gate supported cover. A swinging gate 9 is provided for swingingly WltllHl the chamber to swing said open inner end of the chute, made likeyieldingly by gravity to close the inner end wise of wire netting and having at its upper of the chute, said gate having terminal end and fastened thereto as by soldering a prongs. cross-plate or hinge-member 10 which is 2. A hollow imperforate chamber having hinged on a terminal cross wire of the top a hinged and reticulated top, the latter havpart of the chute, so that the gate depends ing an opening, and a ret culated tubular 50 and. has its lower end closed against the chute runway leading slopingly from said terminus of the lower part of the chute by opening into the chamber, a terminally pronged gate being hinged to the inner end of the chute t0 normally hang closed by gravity.

3. An open top hollow chamber, a closure swingingly mounted thereon having an opening, an inclined reticulated runway of tubular shape leading from said opening into said chamber and terminating" above the floor of the chamber, and areticulated gate mounted movably across the open inner end of the runway to close by gravity and to open yieldingly by a push from within the runway, said gate having at its lower end pointed projections directed to- ARTHUR JAMESON FALL.

at Waterloo, Iowa, this 16th day 

